Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art

Miscellaneous

Major Hayman Rooke suggested that the name of Rootor came about in reference to the outcrops rocking stones, of which there once were reputedly 8 or 9.
The word 'roo' being an old Peak(/English?) word for something that moves "to and fro".

The village of Birchover was also once known by the same name, Rowtor/Rootor.